August 24, 2008

Stacked Watermelon and Heirloom Tomato Salad

This is it. This is the perfect summer salad. Refreshing, juicy, sweet, and a little salty, the combination of heirloom tomatoes and watermelon will make your mouth sing.

Don't you just love it when you can layer simple
fresh ingredients together and the outcome looks elaborate and fancy? I
do.

To make the salad, alternate rounds of watermelon (you can use a biscuit cutter) with slices of ripe heirloom tomatoes and top the stack with basil, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. A sprinkling of freshly ground black pepper and little fleur de sel adds contrast to the sweetness of the melon and tomatoes. Serve it with a medallion of goat cheese on the side (or in the stack, if you like, though it isn't as pretty that way).

What a pretty stack of such beuatiful, rustic colours. I'm 'much' intrigued by these heirloom tomatoes & tomatillos! They add new dimension to this beautiful tower Ann.Can only dream about how satisfying & fresh this must have been!

I should make this for myself for dinner some night this week, before the BF comes back from his travels abroad, since it would be lost on him. He doesn't like watermelon. Who doesn't like watermelon?! I think I'd go with crumbled feta for my cheese. Yum and so pretty!

That is really gorgeous. My aunt & I always love to eat watermelon and have contests: who could spit the seeds farthest, who could eat a whole one etc. We always salted it.
I just finished a watermelon, now I need another one and tomatoes.